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Rally in Alabama

lundi 23 août 2021 à 02:00

Republican anti-vaxxers at the wrecker's rally in Alabama bood him when he advocated vaccination.

It seems that the monster he started has become too powerful and crazy for him to restrain.

One MD in Alabama refuses to treat unvaccinated patients with Covid-19. He says it is because he can't bear watching them die.

I don't think that is a valid reason. Medical doctors should try to treat all sick people, even if the chance of saving them is small, because the chance is more than zero. In this case, the chance is not really so small. Treatment for severe Covid-19 does save many of the patients.

However, a doctor can only do so much, and a hospital can only handle so many patients in its ICU.

When there are more sick people than the doctors and the hospitals can handle, so that they simply cannot treat everyone, it makes sense for them to publish a policy of giving first priority to the patients who took proper precautions to reduce the chance of getting sick — meaning, those who got sick despite vaccination. After those, they would treat as many of the unvaccinated patients as they can fit, to the extent they can.

Extinction Rebellion London protest

lundi 23 août 2021 à 02:00

Extinction Rebellion aimed protests against the City of London, the small district that protects banks from many laws, and lobbied against laws that would limit their ability to promote climate mayhem.

The City of London has the form of a representative, democratic body. Except that few people actually live in its territory, and they are almost all banksters.

Talk of "war on terror"

lundi 23 août 2021 à 02:00

The US will probably not talk about a "war on terror", but many of the operations against terrorist organizations will continue. So will the ominous Department of Homeland Security, with its massive surveillance capabilities that could be turned against anyone.

The most dangerous source of terrorism in the US in the near future will be the millions of right-wing fanatics, detached from reality. They are killing thousands of Americans now, by crusading against masks, vaccination, and anything that would retard the spread of Covid-19.

Will the DHS be of any use against that?

Prevention of Taliban's quick victory

lundi 23 août 2021 à 02:00

A US intelligence official says that the US could have prevented the Taliban's quick victory by keeping certain intelligence teams going. However, Biden could not do this while keeping the agreement (made by the wrecker) to withdraw all the US troops.

If Biden had kept those teams going, would that have prolonged the war? I don't know, but I have a feeling that that could only have occurred if the US had continued pouring in money. There would still have been no chance to defeat the Taliban.

A cut to pay for vaccinating poor countries

lundi 23 août 2021 à 02:00

A bill proposes to cut US military spending to pay for vaccinating poor countries.

That would be money well spent, not only in terms of the general good of humanity, but also specifically in terms of US security against threats to Americans. It would reduce the chance of the evolution of more deadly variants of Covid-19.

The US could use more deficit spending, so it doesn't actually need to cut some other spending to fund this.